New River Postings (or not)

thumbnail Worm-eating warbler, singing between episodes of eating worms. Gentle readers of Bill of the Birds. I am back at the New River Birding Festi...

Gnatty Sign of Spring

thumbnail Though far away, he hears me spishing at him. On of the birds whose arrival I note each year as a solid sign of spring is the blue-gray gnat...




Haiku for Spring Beauties

thumbnail Tiny white flower like snow on a sunny day spring won't be denied These images were taken on Easter Sunday at Camp Tupper, a park in Mar...

Birds Passing Through

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Today a vesper sparrow stopped by the farm on its way north. Small and finely streaked, with that faint eyering and chestnut shoulder—it'...

Mowing the Meadow: Part 2

thumbnail Standing to watch for what I'm mowing and what I don't want to mow. When mowing the meadow I spend a lot of time standing up on the...

Habitat Maintenance: Mowing the Meadow

thumbnail The meadow is left standing during the winter to provide food and shelter for birds and wildlife. One of the joys of having a chunk of rural...

Sky Like an Easter Egg

thumbnail On a recent airplane flight, I looked out my window and saw this. It was dusk on a winter day and we were flying over the ocean. The sky was...

Out There with the Birds

thumbnail When we get a life bird on one of my field trip, I will force you (nicely) to do The Life Bird Wiggle. I'll be attending, trip leading, ...

Tin Roof, Rusted

thumbnail I've always wondered what the heck that lead singer from the B-52's meant when she sang, or rather, shouted: "Tin roof, rusted...

Hurrying the Seasons

thumbnail Weak spring sunlight casting shadows of leafless trees on new meadow grass. It's been spring, officially, for two weeks, but it's no...

A Lifer Shorebird!

thumbnail My life bird: a Terek sandpiper. I had grandiose plans to make this new shorebird's identity a mystery—to make y'all guess about wha...

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